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Wicked Garden
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Wicked Garden
| cover = Stone_Temple_Pilots_Wicked_Garden.jpg
| alt =
| type = Song
| artist = Stone Temple Pilots
| album = Core
| released = September 29, 1992
| recorded = 1992
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Grunge|acid rock}}
| length = 4:05
| label = Atlantic
| writer = Music: Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo
Lyrics: Scott Weiland
| producer = Brendan O'Brien
| misc =
}}
"'Wicked Garden'" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots that appears on their debut studio album, 'Core'. The song was never released as a commercial single (only as a radio promo) but is still considered to be one of the band's biggest hits and appears on their greatest hits compilation, 'Thank You'. The song's lyrics were written by Scott Weiland and the music was written by brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo.
Song meaning
Scott Weiland stated that "'Wicked Garden' is a song about people allowing all their innocence and purity to be lost from their lives."
The show Travis Rodgers Now on Yahoo sports uses this song as bumper music.
Other versions
*An original version of "Wicked Garden" appeared on the 'Mighty Joe Young Demo' in 1990.
*STP performed an acoustic version of "Wicked Garden" on 'MTV Unplugged' in 1993. The video of this version appears on 'Thank You' DVD.
*The band also performed the song on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' in 1993, and in 2013, during the KROQ Weenie Roast, as the surprise super-star band of the evening.
*A live version of the song appears on the soundtrack for the 2001 Family Values Tour.
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References
Category:1992 songs
Category:Stone Temple Pilots songs
Category:Songs written by Scott Weiland
Category:Songs written by Robert DeLeo
Category:Songs written by Dean DeLeo
Category:Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
Category:Atlantic Records singles
Category:Acid rock songs
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